It's something you might be hearing more frequently in Upstate New York, especially if you're a guy.

There's a new trend, it seems, at bars and brewery tap rooms. It's called the Beer Keg Urinal.

It is exactly what it sounds like. A beer keg -- typically a half keg -- cut open, with a flushing mechanism at the top, a water outlet at the back and a drain at the bottom, mounted on the men's room wall.

"It's great to be able to give back what we take from them," says Jim LaValley, co-owner of Big Tupper Brewing Co., a craft brewery in Tupper Lake in the Adirondacks. He installed keg urinals when he opened the brewery tap room last fall.

I encountered the beer keg urinal at Big Tupper in June when I was helping judge the Best Upstate Burger 2017 competition for NYup.com. It was just the second time I'd seen one.

The first had been just days earlier, when our NYup.com team visited The Ruck, a good beer bar in downtown Troy that also makes great burgers (it won our judges' vote as Upstate's best). I took a photo and posted it on Twitter, setting off a minor debate about the use, or misuse, of kegs.

It is true that bars don't typically own the kegs they tap. (They usually belong to a brewery or distributor.) In this case, no worries. The Ruck legally purchased the kegs its uses for men's room relief.

At the other end of Upstate New York, the presence of a Beer Keg Urinal at the New York Beer Project, a craft brewery and gastropub in Lockport, near Buffalo, also set off Twitter reaction.

"We started making keg urinals a couple years ago when someone sent us an awful picture of one," Hammered in Time's Angie McCarten wrote in an email response to a query from NYup.com. " ... We listed them and they took off."

They're so popular, McCarten said, the company is working on a patent.

Have you seen a Beer Keg Urinal at an Upstate New York bar or brewery? Let us know in the comments. Steal the hashtag #FameofThrones. It's good.